Mikael Pettersson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikael Pettersson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikael |
| FAMILY NAME | Pettersson |
| SIGNATURE | PETTERSSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3666-0396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shot in the Dark: Notes on Photography, Causality, and Content
Photography is often said to be an essentially causal medium. This paper addresses the role of causality in photography and argues for three main claims: (i) a causal theory of photography does not force us to say that images of backlit objects are photographs of the back surfaces of the said objects (as Roy Sorensen would have it); rather, (ii), such images, I suggest, are photographs of the objects and what Alva Noë would call their ‘looks’; (i…
Seeing What Is Not There: Pictorial Experience, Imagination and Non-localization
Pictures let us see what is not there. Or rather, since what pictures depict is not really there, we do not really see the things they are pictures of. Ever since Richard Wollheim introduced the notion of seeing-in into philosophical aesthetics, as part of his theory of depiction, there has been a lively debate about how, precisely, to understand this experience. However, one (alleged) feature of seeing-in that Wollheim pointed to has been almost…
Soili-Maria Olli, Visioner av världen: Hädelse och djävulspakt i justitierevisionen 1680–1789, Skrifter från Institutionen för historiska studier 17 (Umeå: Umeå universitet, 2007). vi+194 s
Seeing What Is Not There: Pictorial Experience, Imagination and Non-localization
Pictures let us see what is not there. Or rather, since what pictures depict is not really there, we do not really see the things they are pictures of. Ever since Richard Wollheim introduced the notion of seeing-in into philosophical aesthetics, as part of his theory of depiction, there has been a lively debate about how, precisely, to understand this experience. However, one (alleged) feature of seeing-in that Wollheim pointed to has been almost…
Soili-Maria Olli, Visioner av världen: Hädelse och djävulspakt i justitierevisionen 1680–1789, Skrifter från Institutionen för historiska studier 17 (Umeå: Umeå universitet, 2007). vi+194 s
Seeing What Is Not There: Pictorial Experience, Imagination and Non-localization
Pictures let us see what is not there. Or rather, since what pictures depict is not really there, we do not really see the things they are pictures of. Ever since Richard Wollheim introduced the notion of seeing-in into philosophical aesthetics, as part of his theory of depiction, there has been a lively debate about how, precisely, to understand this experience. However, one (alleged) feature of seeing-in that Wollheim pointed to has been almost…
Shot in the Dark: Notes on Photography, Causality, and Content
Photography is often said to be an essentially causal medium. This paper addresses the role of causality in photography and argues for three main claims: (i) a causal theory of photography does not force us to say that images of backlit objects are photographs of the back surfaces of the said objects (as Roy Sorensen would have it); rather, (ii), such images, I suggest, are photographs of the objects and what Alva Noë would call their ‘looks’; (i…
Art (2 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Causality (physics) (1 works) · Content (measure theory) (1 works) · Depiction (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art (1 works) · Historical Legal Studies and Society (1 works)